weekending

Saturday found us waking up before the crack of dawn again,

off to the races. (Well, technically not a race, just a run...)

Brandon hurt his foot/ankle (again) playing soccer Friday night at a friend's house,

so wasn't able to run the 5K.

Kacy broke her toe (again) earlier in the week, so she had to back out, too,

but Tony was intact, so at least he got to run.

Tyler signed up to walk, in an attempt to encourage more people to sign up for the run/walk.

He did have to run the last little bit, though, to get back in time to take the girls on the 1K.

He cut  it so close, that I'd already taken my coat off and lined up with them.

(Jeremiah and Josiah lined up with Ton')

I was so proud of them!

The all ran the whole 1K, except for Lily who had to walk a few steps a couple of times.

Not a big deal, except that we hadn't taken them out to run one time...

(and it was in the 30's!)

Jeremiah came in 3rd

and Josiah 4th!

There were about 50 people (mostly kiddos) doing the 1K,

so that was kind of a surprise.

I guess nobody else trained either...

There was a contest to see which floor had the largest percentage of participants

(the run was sponsored by Tyler's work as a United Way fundraiser)

Tyler was the Team Leader for his floor

and recruited a good sized team to help recruit runners.

They were leading the competition with 34% of the 2nd floor registered to run on Friday,

when the TL from another (much smaller) office called HR to find out what they had to do to win.

 Tyler was a little irritated....

Oh - almost forgot ~ our family won the most participants per family award :-)

Imagine that.

After the race, it was TKD testing.

The boys all did super and are now brown/black belts.

After all that,

I thought I might need a nap, but I ended up having coffee instead :-)

Brandon went to a friend's house for a few hours in the late afternoon;

I dropped him off and visited for 30 minutes or so before heading back home.

I expected that Tyler had laid down with the girls for a nap when the Razorback game ended.

(Ol' Miss won. Big surprise there.)

Instead, he had rallied the troops

('the troops' being the 4 little ones)

and had the house looking really nice when I got home.

(thanks, Hon!)

Tyler carved pumpkins with the kids

(which reminds me - I need to take pictures of them with their pumpkins)

while I put away all the wedding crap stuff that finally got brought in the house Friday evening

(but only because we needed the room in the car for other junk...)

It took me a ridiculous amount of time (close to 2 hours?)

because I re-organized and  repacked everything to make it easy for future use.

I think I spent 20 -30 minutes just putting 40 yards of tulle (cut to varying lengths) back on the bolt.

I'm telling you, I really wanted to just trash it;

but I couldn't. 

(The other day, I was cutting out a top (finally getting around to trying to add sleeves to my favorite sleeveless shirt pattern - now that it's already cold...  I'm hoping it'll work, but at the same time, expecting it can't be that easy...)

I had the fabric folded and the front pattern pieces laid out with rocks on them for weights, all ready for cutting,

when I realized I'd be wasting about 3 inches of fabric.

So I moved everything.

Grumbling the whole time about 'why do I have to make sure not to waste even a smidge of fabric...'  sigh.)

After the pumpkins, Tyler ran to pick up Brandon (and some rotisserie chicken for dinner :-)

while I finished putting away the crap stuff.

Wait. You know what? I didn't spend quite as long as I thought putting stuff away;

TJ called and I sat down and talked to him for awhile,

'cause my 'putting things away while on the phone' skills are notoriously lacking.

After dinner and clean-up and getting kids to bed, 

I worked on Lily's quilt while Brandon and I watched an episode of Sherlock.

(Tyler pooped out on us and went to bed)

I forgot that they were movie-length shows.

I was thinking 'episode'. Episodes are about 45 minutes.

I was good and ready for bed myself when it was over.

Today was mostly lazy.

I even sat under a tree for awhile, quilting and enjoying the sunshine, while Tyler rested beside me

and Josiah ran back and forth between us and the house (making paper hats)

and Lola and Smokey the cat begged for attention.

Which was a really nice way to end a weekend.